Monday, July 01, 2002

Jon Schull on visualizing blogthreads. Jon Schull has been playing with a way to visualize a sequence of related blog items: ... 6:42:13 PM

Mozilla does CRL right. Last night, as an experiment, I revoked one of my Thawte Freemail certificates. Today I sent myself a message signed with that now-bogus cert. Few people have ever used an S/MIME cert. Still fewer, I am sure, have explored how email software deals with a CRL (certificate revocation list). ... 6:42:13 PM

Mozilla opens up Microsoft's closed Outlook PST format. Tim O'Reilly has written his annual braindump in preparation for the Open Source Convention. His essays are always thoughtful. This time, I was struck by one particular comment: ... 6:42:13 PM

Transmeta gadgets and paradigm shift gear grinding. Transmeta threw a great party last night at the Rockefeller Center. Lots of nifty Crusoe-based gadgets were on display, including the OQO Ultra-Personal Computer. It wants to be a universal engine that powers your desktop, detaches and docks into a notebook, or stands alone as a somewhat portly PDA. Everybody wanted one, including me -- and I'm not known for gadget lust. ... 6:42:13 PM

Glue, Gaia, and the services grid. Graham Glass, the wizard behind The Mind Electric, is "100% sure" that grid computing is the future. To prepare for it he's building Gaia, which in its first incarnation will be used to do simple, lightweight clustering and load-balancing of web services. Those services, initially, will be Java-based and written in TME's SOAP toolkit, Glue, but Graham's working on .NET bindings as well. ... 6:42:13 PM

cool, Mark Baker started a blog, welcome Mark. 6:42:11 PM

Wes is reading A Deepness in the Sky. A great read, I just finished reading A fire upon the deep, also excellent. 6:42:11 PM

Axis-dev: Support for DIME according to the new released spec. [Sam Ruby] Cool !, currently updating the PocketSOAP DIME code to match the new spec. 6:42:11 PM

BlogToaster appears to have gone down well with the bloggers, its now upto number 6 on blogdex, and there's 147 people using the toaster as of now. As MSN has a limit of 150 for the buddy list, you'd better get in quick if you're not using it already!. I ought to be able to bring up another instance of toaster to get another 150 people going, I really need to get the code finished and packaged, so anyone can run there own BlogToaster hub. 6:42:11 PM

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen announces a revised DIME specification, and a WS-Security specification [which replaces the SOAP over DIME specification], both are now sporting MSFT & IBM authors. 6:42:11 PM

Clemens Vasters has released an experimental WS-Security implementation for ASP.NET 6:42:11 PM

David McCusker is chronicling his experiences with his new TiBook. 6:42:10 PM

Worth a look, the IPR statements for the XML Protocol Working Group [aka SOAP 1.2] 6:42:08 PM

WSIL?. Timothy Appnel on WSIL.  OK, so I must be missing something.... How's this different from the old DISCO again? Can anyone explain? Simon? [Commonality] The main difference is that the spec has both IBM & Microsoft's name on the cover. 6:42:06 PM

WebServices.Org: "IBM donate key Web Services technologies to Apache" The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) and WS-Inspection for Java Implementation (WSIL4J) are now Apache projects.  [snellspace] Now all they need to do is fix the license on the dependencies, so its actually usable. 6:42:05 PM

SOAP 1.2 goes to Last Call 6:42:03 PM